Attaching device for tags



(No Model.)

J. w. TUTTLE.

' ATTAGHIITGv DEVICE FOR .TAGS. I

' N0. 283,169. Patented Aug; 14, 1883.

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PATENT AOFFICE.

JOHN wEnTHwOR I-r TUTTLE, or WATERT N, rmssncnnsnrrs.

ATTAC'HING DEVICE-FOR TAGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,169, dated August 14, 18 83. i i Application filed May 22, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JOHN NV. TUTTLE,.Of \Vatertown, in the county of Middlesex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Attaching Tags or Various Other Articles to Goods; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is a. perspective view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 an edge view, of one of my improved tag attachments as made with an eye for supporting the tag. Fig. 4 isa 'perspective view ofit as having a hook in the place of the said eye. i

The nature of my invention is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

The tag attachment is made of, a piece of wire of suitablelength bentat its middle, so as to form the article as a forked spring, A, having two elastic prongs, a a, standing obliquely toeach other, as shown, such wire being bent also, if desirable, so as to form it, at its middle thereof, either with an eye, I), as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, orwitha hook, c, as represented in Fig. 4. Sucheye or hook serves to connect the attachmentjwitlra tag or other article to be supported by it. Furthermore, each: prong near its end is bent inwardly at or about a right angle, as shown at c, and is. next bent outwardly, as shown at (1, so as to form a hook to it, one of suchhooks being represented at (Z and the other at (1''. These hooks are reversed, their points pointing outward and in i Opposite directions relatively to each: other. One prong, a, I prefer to have somewhat longer than the other, a, in order that when the prongs are pressed toward each other the hook of the longer may overlap that of the shorter ofthem in orderto carry the points of the'hooks nearer to each other than could'well' be the case were each of the prongs of the samelength.

. attachment to the said piece, whereby the tag as represented in the United States Patents Nos. 70,834 and 197,293, in which each hook is formed with a single bend, whereas in my improved tag-holder such hook is formed by two bends of the wire, so as to cause the barbs of the hooks to project outwardly'in opposite directions, whereby by compressing together the shanks of the hooks and afterward allow ing them to expand the hooks are forced into apiece of goods when placed against such.

I claim--- As an improved article of manufacture, the tag attachment, substantially as set forth, consisting of a piece of wire pointed at its ends and bent at its middle in the form of an eye or hook, and near each of its ends both inwardly and outwardly, as represented, so as to cause it to have at such ends hooks having points projecting outwardly in oppositedirections relatively to each other, as shown and described.

JOHN wENTHwon n rru'r rnn Witnesses R. H. EDDY, S. N; PIPER. 

